Fortnite

Fortnite is a video game developed and published by Epic Games, released in 2017, best known for its free-to-play Battle Royale mode in which up to one hundred players compete to be the last person or team standing on a shrinking map. The game generates revenue primarily through optional cosmetic purchases rather than a purchase price or gameplay advantages, a free-to-play model that became widely emulated across the industry, and it has hosted large-scale in-game concerts and events that blur the line between video game and broader entertainment media. Fortnite is widely credited with popularizing the battle royale genre at mass scale and with accelerating the video game industry's shift toward live, continuously updated service games.